A drug to be a better christian
If there was a drug that you could take that made you better at what you do, would you take it? A drug you could get a prescription for at the doctor. It's not illegal.
It would make you a better preacher. It would allow you to have more confidence in presenting the gospel. It would give you more endurance to spend more hours of your day saving the lost or building the kingdom.
What if it also brought you greater clarity and discernment? So you somehow knew just what to say when it was time to say it. Maybe you even felt like you heard God better, not in some kind of foggy, trippy sense, but in clarity, reason, and awareness of your surroundings.
What if it helped you remember things better? Relationships were helped because you remember names and stories better. You can remember large quantities of scripture that before seemed too much, or difficult to do.
If there was a drug, that made you a better disciple, better evangelist, better servant, more loving and disciplined. 1 little white pill per day. would you take it?
what if I told you your church would grow. to incredible numbers. People would raise their hands in response to the message you proclaimed, would you take it?
I'm curious.
It would make you a better preacher. It would allow you to have more confidence in presenting the gospel. It would give you more endurance to spend more hours of your day saving the lost or building the kingdom.
What if it also brought you greater clarity and discernment? So you somehow knew just what to say when it was time to say it. Maybe you even felt like you heard God better, not in some kind of foggy, trippy sense, but in clarity, reason, and awareness of your surroundings.
What if it helped you remember things better? Relationships were helped because you remember names and stories better. You can remember large quantities of scripture that before seemed too much, or difficult to do.
If there was a drug, that made you a better disciple, better evangelist, better servant, more loving and disciplined. 1 little white pill per day. would you take it?
what if I told you your church would grow. to incredible numbers. People would raise their hands in response to the message you proclaimed, would you take it?
I'm curious.
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posted by mark at
9:45 AM
3 Comments:
It's pretty tempting. It gives the feeling that it's an empty growth. Like you have the ability, but the character development that takes place in order to get these skills would be lost.
A better disciple, to me, would include character. I think it would have to. So I guess then, the answer would be yes.
It doesn't sound like there's a downside. You lose out on the experience leading up to there, which is the big downside, but if you're a better disciple, the character that you would have developed is already there.
If you took out the disciple/character end, I would say no, because you would miss out on the character development which comes through getting those qualities, through the hardship and trials, and through the experience.
There is such a drug. It's called coffee. An' if ya make it right, your church might very well swell to incredible numbers.
Seems like it works for some people in Seattle, anyway. :)
It depends on what day you offered me the drug.
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